Make plans now to head out to Old North Dayton for a four course craft beer dinner, which kicks off a year long celebration of Amber Rose's 25th anniversary. Originally built in 1910 by Sigmund Ksiezopolski, it ran as a general store and deli named Sig’s up until the 1980′s. The family ran the general store downstairs and resided upstairs as their family quarters. The National Guard stayed with the family during the Great Flood of 1913.

To commemorate their first year, the brewery will host the 1st annual “Beer Bash” this Saturday, January 17th . The celebration will consist of limited release draught and cask tappings, live music and food trucks. The celebration kicks off at noon with new tappings on the hour leading up to the Grand Finale tapping of their latest limited release, “Baltic Argonaut”, a Baltic Porter weighing in at 11.5% ABV.

Kevin J. Gray, the Co-Chair in charge of coordinating the beers for the event, said, “Look for beers from more than 40 breweries from Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, and points in-between.

How do you make a World-Class IPA even better? Add stuff...good stuff like grapefruit!
Stop by Spinoza's, located at the Mall at Fairfield Commons in Beavercreek tonight and sample San Diego's Ballast Point Brewing Company draft beers including the limited edition brew Grapefruit Sculpin.
Also featuring a fresh batch of regular Sculpin IPA (100 points "World-Class" on BeerAdvocate.com) as well as Grunion American Pale Ale (Gold Medal Winner at GABF) and Dorado Double IPA.
Keg tapping will start at 5pm.
Live music by Mark Gearo from 6:30 to 9:30pm. … [Read more...]

ifth Street Brewpub is hosting a Jackie O’s Tap Takeover starting at 4pm on Wed, Dec 17th . Join them for a night of outpouring support! The FSB community is coming together on December 17th to help the Athens community recover, and we’re going to do it one beer and raffle at a time. $1 of every Jackie O's sold will be donated to the Athens Union Street Fire Employees Relief Fund in addition to all raffle proceeds.

This is my last review!
This is the Snobby Beer review of Bourbon County Stout Rare and King Henry from Goose Island Brewing Company in Chicago, IL. Bourbon County Rare was aged for almost 2 years in Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year barrels. Once the barrels were emptied, Goose Island brewed a batch of barley wine called King Henry to fill them.
From the Goose Island website:
Rare:
“Brewer's Notes:
This stout was aged for two years in the finest old barrels Goose Island used in its 18 years of bourbon barrel-aging beers! A true rarity—savor and share it only with those you hold dear, [...]

It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing that I will no longer be producing video reviews. It's time to say goodbye. This probably isn't a complete shock seeing how I haven't posted one in nine months. Rather than just have this little blog fade out into obscurity, I decided to make a post that might give some insight into the decision to let Snobby Beer go. I'm going to be completely honest with this post. Here's why I'm giving it up:
It's not fun anymore. Back when I first started doing the Snobby Beer thing, I was a [...]